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Wolfgang U Dressler, Marianne Kilani-Schoch, Natalia Gagarina, Lina Pestal, Markus Pchtrager

On the Typology of Inflection Class Systems

Inflectional classes are a property of the ideal inflecting-fusional language type. Thus strongly inflecting languages have the most complex vertical and horizontal stratification of hierarchical tree structures. Weakly inflecting languages which also approach the ideal isolating type or languages which also approach the agglutinating type have much shallower structures. Such properties follow from principles of Natural Morphology and from the distinction of the descendent hierarchy of macroclasses, classes, subclasses, subsubclasses etc. and homogeneous microclasses. The main languages of illustration are Latin, Lithuanian, Russian, German, French, Finnish, Hungarian and Turkish.

Folia Linguistica, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 0165-4004
Volume: 40, 07/2006
Pages: 51 - 74

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